In my experience soaking hooves, you can turn nice hooves to mush with all that water! We did that to a gelding’s hind feet, just hosing them 3 times a day! I find it hard to believe there was any quality of hoof left after 2 weeks of soaking.
Have any folks with Potomac done other Laminitis treatments besides soaking? Like putting strofoam under the hoof, taping it on to prevent rotation? Sand in the stall to give support instead of a hard stall surface?
My stalls would not hold water, we are on a sand base, nor would I want that mess in the stall! An idea is to add ice to deeper sawdust bedding, tie horse so it is standing on the ice. Sawdust will keep ice cold, melts slower. However the wet sawdust needs total cleaning out, so no mold gets started in it. Horse gets the cold thru hoof, but not the effects of water soaking on hoof walls.
Our Potomac horses recovered well, had no hoof issues during or after being treated. Never did any “preventative” steps to avoid laminitus. They are totally sound in hard use. The gelding we hosed did recover from over wet hooves, but they did cause problems for a while with cracking vertically until they grew back out, a year later. Had to be kept shod during that time.
(It did make me feel a little better, though).